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Detail from the Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, a medieval illuminated manuscript illustration depicting the work on an agricultural estate during the month of March. Condé Museum, Château de Chantilly, Oise.

Page showing the month of January in the Book of Hours known as Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (created c. 1412-1416 and 1485-1489 CE). It is frequently referred to as the “king of illuminated manuscripts” because of the grandeur...

God surrounded by seraphim, illustration from the illuminated manuscript Petites Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry, 14th-century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

Book of Revelation, folio 6v and 7r of illuminated manuscript Fr 403 by Maître de Sarum and Hennequin de Bruges, 1240-1250. National Library of France, Paris.

Picture 47 of the Ambrosian Iliad - an illuminated manuscript of Homer's work dating to the 5th century CE) - showing Achilles making a sacrifice to Zeus in order to ensure Patroclus' safe return (from the Iliad book 16, 220-252).

Black Hours, Pentecost (18v/19r), created in Bruges, c. 1475-1480 CE. Morgan Library

Jean Pucelle: Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux. 1325-28 CE, Metropolitan Museum, New York.

Initial page of the Gospel of St. Mark from the Lindisfarne Gospels (c. 700-715 CE), created at the Lindisfarne Priory on the “Holy Island” off the coast of Northumbria, Britain.

Portrait of the Devil, Codex Gigas, f. 290r., created in the early 13th century CE in Bohemia (modern-day Czech Republic). National Library of Sweden, Stockholm.

Folio 5 of the Book of Kells with the Eusebian Canons. Trinity College Library